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Is the Bible the Only Authority Concerning Life After Death?

Is the Bible the Only Authority Concerning Life After Death?

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Yes. Nevertheless, questions about what happens after death have plagued man since Abel died. Men have sought all kinds of means to find out what happens after the soul and spirit has left the body of a loved one. This has led to all kinds of superstition and magic. But definitive  knowledge about life, death, and what follows death can be found only in the Bible. Jesus Christ himself is the only man to die and experience all that transpires afterward and still come back to tell us about it. This makes Him the final authority.  

“I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death (Revelation 1:18).  

 Death is not annihilation. 

Some teach that death means the total disintegration of all that pertains to the person. They teach that through death the person simply ceases to exist. But neither the old or New Testament teaches such a doctrine. The Bible emphasizes eternal continuity of the person.  

 Resurrection is not reincarnation.

 Others teach that death is simply a process of rebirth, that we will come back in some other form. At the root of this idea is the antibiblical idea of karma which stresses the repetition of life in different forms until one’s  soul is good enough to earn eternal rest. Such an idea is totally foreign to the grace of God. The companion teaching called ttransmigration of souls emphasizes that we come back in new forms many different times. The Bible stresses the importance of our God-given identity. We shall be changed to be like Him, but we will be the person God always intended us to be.  

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